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George Henwood.
Abbot Richard of Wallingford, Fourteenth Century Scholar and Instrument Maker.

Published Wallingford: Pie Powder Press for Wallingford Museum, 1988.
Series: Wallingford Museum Booklets.
ISBN 0948598042.
Binding: paperback pamphlet, centre stapled.
Printer: Parchment (Oxford) Ltd.
Size: 148x209x3mm.
Page count: 40pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: covers have a little wear at the edges and corners; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.


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[Publisher’s price £1.95]
Weight without packaging: 76g.

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Contents: Early life; Oxford, 1308-14; Priesthood & 2nd Oxford period; Studies & authorship; Election & abbacy; Onset of leprosy; Abbey affairs; The 'great clock'; Close of Richard’s life.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 12, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: note on 'reference sourcees& further reading'
Index: no 


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